RE: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf

["Gene Marsh" <marshm@anycast.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga-roots@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga-roots@dnso.org]On Behalf
> Of Kent Crispin
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:49 PM
> To: List Admin; Thomas Roessler
> Cc: [ga-roots]; icann-europe@fitug.de
> Subject: Re: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf
<SNIP>
> In fact there are numerous other possibilities for sources of
> contamination.  For example -- I go to a conference and hook up my
> laptop to the ISP providing connectivity to the conference.  I am
> required to use their smtp server; it uses some set of roots I never
> heard of...  Or: My employer uses an ISP under one root zone, I have a
> personal account at a different ISP.  My ISP decides that it is going to
> support a new root zone, with a different version of the TLD in
> question.  Why would an ISP do that? Because it gets a customer request
> to host a web site in a new TLD?
>
<SNIP>

Right.  So why would ICANN knowingly and willingly create such a situation
when the TLD is already operational?

Gene...

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